The plight of screwed-over Motown artists frightens me. Here are these terribly talented folks who finally break into the industry, a feat that cannot be easy to achieve in the first place, and their talent and work ethic isn’t enough to navigate the Machiavellian snake pit that is the record industry. I’m not going to say that I relate on the same level as these singers, but their stories certainly terrify me as a comic-book artist.